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Justin Bieber comments on Selena Gomez split; teen stars expected to reunite tonight in New York

Even Justin Bieber is confused by all the Selena Gomez break-up drama.Photo: Reuters

Leah Collins

Published: November 12, 2012 - 11:52 AM

Updated: November 12, 2012 - 8:14 PM

Amid Selena Gomez break-up rumours, Justin Bieber performed Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River” during a show in Boston Saturday night — a telling detail that could only mean one thing: Britney Spears broke his heart, so now he’s working on an album of “mature” R&B with Timbaland and the Neptunes.

Or, maybe he’s feeling sad and twisty about all those reports that he and Gomez have ended their teen-dream romance, and he felt like expressing it through the power of Top 40.

So vague!

So cryptic!

So like every new report on The Bieb’s relationship status!

And even the 18-year-old himself seems confused about his situation. Bieber did a radio interview Saturday with Open House Party, for instance, and when the pop star was asked to comment on the glut of reports suggesting he and Gomez, 20, had split, the kid, audibly flustered, would only say this:

“I don’t know what to say,” he told the show’s host, neither confirming nor denying the break-up reports. “I don’t know what’s going on in my life… To even assess that it doesn’t make sense ’cause I have not made any comment.”

No comment? Let’s take it to the tabloids’ various mysterious sources, then. Whatever’s going on between Bieber and his baby (baby, baby) — oh, there’s so much gossip:

Though Gomez and Bieber have been together for roughly two years now — and have weathered break-up rumours, and even a paternity suit, as long as they’ve combined their powers of cuteness — E! News reports the official split happened a week ago. It was, says their source, “because of their crazy schedules, it was getting harder and harder to maintain a relationship.”

Bieber, for instance, is in the middle of his North American tour, while Gomez has chiefly been busy filming a Wizards of Waverly Place movie in California.

There had been cryptic hints of trouble: Bieber, for instance, Tweeted “Lingse” on October 29 with a picture of his sad little face — a message that various outlets have generously interpreted as an anagram for “Single.”

And then there were other instances of their careers getting in the way of romance: examples like Bieber’s well-publicized appearance at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show last week — a gig that spawned reports of the kid hitting on underpants models and going on a Broadway date with 19-year-old VS Angel Barbara Palvin. (Gomez, for her part, Tweeted out a picture of Bieber hanging with Palvin, which only fuelled further speculation of a PG-rated scandal.)

Officially over or not, TMZ reports Bieber wants to see Gomez, and he isn’t seeing anyone else — Belieber, Victoria’s Secret model, or otherwise. He’ll be in Brooklyn tonight for a show at the Barclays Center; Gomez, the Daily Mail reports, has been in New York State on business. (Poor muffin spent her Saturday doing promo at a K-Mart.) If a reunion is going to happen, the paper suggests it will go down tonight.

“She [Selena] is keen to talk,” a source told the Daily Mail, “and so is he.”

“They’re both being a big cagey and stubborn but they’re desperate to see one another,” the source continued. “This isn’t new for them, they often have a tumultuous relationship. We all expect them to work it out.”

Or, you know, not everyone is meant to stay with their super-famous teenage sweetheart forever.

Bieber and Gomez first hinted at their relationship — a romance of many grand gestures and Swiss Chalet dinners — in November 2010.